STEM Road Map for High School challenges tenth graders to think about how innovation can enhance the world for humans while sustaining progress and conserving resources. This volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series outlines a journey that steers students toward authentic problem-solving grounded in integrated STEM disciplines. Designed to meet the need for real-world learning in K–12 classrooms, this interdisciplinary, four-lesson module uses project- and problem-based learning.
Key Features
- Understand several forms of renewable, sustainable energy sources.
- Apply their understanding of how alternators are used to generate electricity in lab experiments, as well as explain how tools such as windmills and dams are used to operate them.
- Describe how electricity is generated in photovoltaic cells.
- Calculate the amount of electricity consumed by several household items and consider this consumption when determining the average monthly energy consumption of households around the world in comparison to U.S. households.
- Understand how fossil fuels have been used in the production of electricity and the impact they have had on the world’s economy, humans’ quality of life, and the earth.
- Identify several hindrances to the creation of new energy sources as well as ideas to counter them.
- List several factors that can be used to motivate people from all walks of life to use renewable and sustainable energies.
- Create a fictional company that uses renewable energies.
Additional Information
The STEM Road Map Curriculum Series is anchored in the Next Generation Science Standards, the Common Core State Standards, and the Framework for 21st Century Learning. In-depth and flexible, Rebuilding the Natural Environment can be used as a whole unit or in part to meet the needs of districts, schools, and teachers who are charting a course toward an integrated STEM approach.
